Protecting Olympians with Tea Trays and Pasties

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Over the past two weeks most of us have spent our evenings, slumped on our sofas in overly hot living rooms, watching the world’s best athletes risk life and limb in the frozen Olympic park of PeyongChang.

Lying there with our dinners balancing on our winter fat stores, many of us have probably thought it can’t really be that hard. You’ve probably considered grabbing your nans tea tray next time it snows and plunging head first down the local high street, maybe even managing to snatch a pasty from Greggs as you shoot by. Time for a quick reality check?

• The top speed for women’s skeleton this Winter Olympics – 79 mph
• The top speed ever recorded on a luge (street) – 102 mph
• Downhill skiers often reach speeds in the 80 mph region
• Ski aerials has the most injuries in any Olympic sport

So unless you’re planning on grabbing that pasty whilst overtaking a Nissan Skyline, you better cancel your amazon order for those racing goggles.

All of this begs the question though – who on earth is insuring the athletes of the Winter Olympics? Break neck speeds and high rates of injury surely doesn’t lend itself to a sound financial risk for insurance companies.

So how do you offer protection for an Olympian?

The raison d'etre of these athletes, their saving grace so to speak, is their age and peak physical condition. Let’s face it, there aren’t many Olympic athletes with a bus pass and a penchant for Carlsberg and deep fried mars bars.

Quick Quote Protect looked at some Life Insurance Quotes for team GB athletes and the results are quite surprising.

Take Lizzy Yarnold, hero of the 2018 Winter Olympics, as an example. In her 20’s, physically healthy and a non-smoker, she is surprisingly easy to insure – despite the fact she throws her self head first down an ice track of hairpin turns.

If you think your lifestyle would make Life Insurance too expensive then this will change your mind;

For Life Insurance along with Critical Illness Cover looking to pay out £100,000, Lizzy Yarnold would only have to pay a monthly premium of £31.48.

You may think your lifestyle is a bit risky but in actuality – if skeleton sledding doesn’t affect your Life Insurance Quote too dramatically then you should certainly try looking at some quotes for yourself.

Give Quick Quote Protect a call today; if we can insure an Olympic Athlete, hopefully we can insure you.